Just a little over five years ago, I conducted two same sex marriages that got wide regional attention. The Monday after the marriages, we walked down to the city clerk’s office and asked for marriage licenses. Both couples were denied licenses. That’s five years of waiting for what is now legal in Massachusetts, Iowa and […]
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While I was visiting with my sister in Southern California, we went for a hike in the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Preserve. It is one of her favorite places to hike and take in what the area originally looked like. The vistas are beautiful. The first section we walked on was basalt. During the spring […]
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